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A SHOW OF HANDS. 



AN ORIGINAL DRAMATIC SKETCH. 



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Copyrighted, 1891, by T. H. FRENCH. 



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Firsi produced at Grosvenor House, Park Lane, W. {h^ 
permission of the Duke of Westminster), on March Qth, 1890. 



CHARACTERS. 

Edward Mr. E. Allan Aynesworth. 

Angela Miss Norreys. 



A SHOW OF HANDS. 



Scene. — A draicing-voom. Angela discovered in a state 
of great agitation ; walks up and doicn stage ; ^ goes to 
door and listens; sits doicn in chair, r.c, fanning her- 
self violently, then rises, takes stage and turns to door, c. 
Edward enters, stands at door, c, looking very woebe- 
gone. 

Ang. At last ! Well, what does he say ? (Edward 
comes a little forward, hands in ^^ockets, and shal^es his 
head. Brings him down) Don't shake your head, but 
speak. Can't you see how dreadfully anxious I am ? 
Edward, speak ! {shakes his arm) 

Edw. It's all up with us ; he declines absolutely. 

Ang. Declines ! Oh, no, Edward, it can't be true ! 
There's some mistake ; you have misunderstood him. 

Edw. Impossible ! His final words were, " Never will 
I consent to j^our marrying my daughter ! Never ! Rather 
than that she should become your wife, I would witness 
unmoved her elopement in a butcher's cart with the man 
who comes for orders." 

Ang. {distressed) Oh, dear ! oh, dear ! What can have 
put papa so much against you ? You believe in vaccina- 
tion, and you are neither a Radical nor a Ritualist ; it's 
very strange ! Did you tell him everything about your- 
self ? 

Edw. Oh, yes ; as you suggested, I piled it up tre- 
mendously. 

Ang. Did you mention that you had a thousand a 
year ? 



6 A SHOW OF HANDS. 

Edw. Yes, and I am afraid I made it fifteen hundred. 

Ang. How generous of you ! And that your elder 
brother was very delicate ? 

Edw. Yes, and I think I led him to believe that the 
poor old boy was dying. Heaven forgive me ! 

Ang, Oh, never mind, it's only diplomacy. And did 
you say that your portrait had appeared in two evening 
papers ? 

Edw. Well, no ; I didn't mention that. 

Ang. There ! 

Edw. Of course it's fame, but I thought I'd better not say 
anything about it. You know it appeared in an article 
headed "A fool and his — " 

Ang. {interrupting) Oh, yes, of course ; but did you tell 
him how clever you are — that you have written a letter to 
the Times on "Bimetallism," and can do heaps of tricks 
T>^ith cards ? 

Edw. Yes, yes. I said everything to my credit I could 
think of ; and more important than all, I told him how 
dearly I loved my darling little Angy. {placing his arm 
round her waist) 

x\ng. {removing his arm) Ah, papa wouldn't be inter- 
ested in that. He calls love the Attraction of the Sexes, 
with a capital A and a capital S, and makes theories about 
it. He's a philosojDher, you know, {rather bitterly) 

Edw. He is, worse luck. 

Ang. What do you mean ? 

Edw. Well, it's jDhilosophy, or something like it, that has 
so completely done for us, 

Ang. Ah ! I might have expected it. Papa's fads again ; 
but go on, tell me all about it. 

Edw. Well, after I had bhished through my catalogue of 
virtues, and was anxiously awaiting his decision,' your father 
exclaimed quite suddenly, " Show me your hand." I put 
it out — so. {shows hand) He glanced at it for a moment, 
then smacked his forehead violently and groaned. I was 
naturally rather alarmed at this, and inquired if he were 
ill ; his reply was, "Fetch me, from the third bookshelf 
yonder, volume 44 of ' Pettigrew's Palmistry for Begin- 
ners.'" 

Ang. Palmistry ! Ah, to be sure ! It's his latest 
madness ! 

Edw. I brought the book. He said, " Open at page 



A 8H0W OF HANDS. 7 

692." I did SO. "Turn to Diagram No. 35," he con- 
tinued, "and tell me what you think of the thumb there 
depicted." Well, I couldn't for the life of me make out 
what he was driving at, so I smiled feebly and said it 
was very pretty. " No, sir," he thundered out ; "it is not 
pretty ; it is the thumb of avarice and cruelty, and let me 
tell you, sir, it is an exact representation of your own. Be 
gone. Good-evening !" 

Ang. Oh, Edward ! But you aren't avaricious and 
cruel, are you ? 

Edw. I don't know ; I suppose I must be ; it's in a book, 
I've seen it in print. Oh ! {sigJis) I wish I never had a 
thumb — or a hand — or an arm — or anything. 

Ang. Yes ; it would have been much more convenient, 
and you could easily have written love letters with your 
toes, like the man at Barnum's ; but no, no, I shouldn't 
have liked it, there would have been so much less of 
you to love, {takes hold of Edward's thumh) Ah ! you 
naughty thumb ! You little know how unhappy you've 
made us ! 

Edw. I believe he does, the brute, and glories in it. 
You beast ! I broke you once, years ago, and if there 
was a crowbar or anything handy, by Jove ! I'd do it 
again. 

Ang. (quicMy) No, ^o ; don't break it again, {suddenly) 
Oh, I wonder if that has anything to do with its shape ! 
Perhaps it becar"'e c«'uel and avaricious quite by acci- 
dent. 

Edw. By Jove ! most likely. I never thought of that. 
It may account for everything. Shall I have another try — 
explain the breakage to your father ? It may change his 
views entirely, {going toicards door) 

Ang. Do, dear, do. {jmsMng him off) Run away at once ; 
and mind you tell him the whole truth. Stay ! {stopping 
him) Mightn't you mention that it has never been itself 
ever since it was broken ; more wobbly like ; altogether 
different from your father's thumb — and your brother's 
thumb — and the family's thumbs generally — I mean if such 
is really the case. 

Edw^ Don't be afraid, I'll spin him a yarn ! {Exit) 

Ang. {calling after Mm) Don't forget — more wobbly 
like. Dear Edward ! I hope he'll be careful ; of course 
one ought always to speak the truth, especially to one's 



8 A SHOW OF HANDS. 

parents ; but I know dear papa so very well, and have- 
noticed that he takes facts so much better after they have 
been touched up a little. Dear father ! {rather cfngrUy) 
I wonder if all philosophers are as tiresome as he is ! 
He'll never let me get married. This is the third time 
his fads have come between me and happiness, and now 
his consent is much more necessary than before, for I care 
for Edward, really and truly — a thousand times more 
than I did for the others. The others ! Ah yes ! 
(smiling at the recollection) What nice fellows they were I 
There was Tom Pontifex. What a dear little man he 
was ! Hair a trifle carroty, perhaps, but such a kind 
heart ! I have never tasted since such delicious 
chocolate creams as those he used to bring me. I fancy 
I can taste them now ! (indicating reminiscencea of an 
ajjpetite gratified in the past) Papa was deep in Phrenol- 
ogy when Tom proposed, and insisted on feeling his 
bumps. He ruffled up the poor boy's head till it was 
like a carpet broom, and then declared that it had the 
bump of wife-beating abnormally developed — and so Tom 
vras sent about his business. It turned out afterward 
that the bump was the result of incautiously taking the 
air in Hyde Park during the progress of a Socialist 
Demonstration. That was all ! Fred Stokes was the next 
disappointment. That was in papa's Spiritualist days. 
Fred was sent off into a trance and made to declare 
that he was a blood-stained bandit. What a shame ! 
Every one knew that he had lived from childhood at 
Clapham. and had been on the Stock Exchange ever since^ 
he was sixteen. Poor, dear Fred ! he has made a fortune 
in Nitrates since, but, alas ! I shall never have the 
spending of it. Edward's a very long time ; I wonder v.hat 
they're talking about ? Ah, here he is I 

Edward enters rapidly with an air of suppressed 
agitation and excitement. 

Ang. (eagerly) Well, well ? 

Edw. Worse — worse than ever, (leaves Angela lacTc as 
she approaches him) 

Ang. Worse than ever ! Didn't He believe in the broken 
thumb ? 

Edw. He admitted there might be something in n)V 



A SHOW OF HANDS. ^ 

story, but went on to say he must make a careful examina- 
tion of the lines of my hand. He got down another volume- 
of the Palmistry Book, opened at another diagram, com- 
pared it with my hand — and oh {groans) his discoveries 
were simply appalling ; in fact, I feel it is quite impossible 
you can ever marry the crushed and battered wretch that 
now stands before you. {sinlcs into chair) 

Ang. {aside) I expected it ; that's just how Tom went on 
after his bumps were felt ; but I didn't love then as I dO' 
now. I can't give Eddie up, and, what's more, I won't, 
{aloud) Look up, dear ! 

Edw. {groans) Oh ! 

Ang. Tell me what was this dreadful discovery ! 

Edw. {speaking solemnly) Can you bear to hear it ? It's 
awful ! 

Ang. Yes. I'll nerve myself. 

Edw. Good. Ill wait a moment while you do it. 
{pause, during which Angela clenches her hands and maJces 
some slight contortions of tlie face, so as to indicate the mental 
struggle going on within her) Are you nerved ? 

Ang. Yes, I'm nerved, 

Edw. {rises and shoics hand) Well, do you see that line ? 
That is the line of murder ! That one running across — so— 
is the line of burglary ! And that — oh, nerve yourself as 
much as ever you can, my Angy — that is the line of arson ! 
In short, that is the sort of man I am. 

Ang. {cover ing face and shuddering) It is too, too dreadful, 
but it canH be true. 

Edw. Oh, how I wish it were not ; but, alas ! there is 
no mistake about it. Thumbs you may explain away, but 
lines are stern realities. 

Ang. But you never guessed you were this sort of man, 
did you, Eddie ? 

Edw. Not for a moment ! Your father says that these 
evil passions are just now lying dormant ; but they may 
break out at any moment, and before I know where I am 
I may find myself burgling and murdering and arsoning all 
over the place, {takes stage R.) 

Ang. I see, and when they break out you'll break in with 
a dagger in one hand and a box of lucifers in the other ! 
It's very, very awful ! 

Edw. Yes, ghastly ! {slight pause) I suppose that now we 
must say farewell forever ? 



10 A SHOW OF HANDS. 

Ang. Yes, I suppose so. {loohs at thumb) Oh, you wicked^ 
cruel, poor dear hand, (kisses it) 

Edw. Don't do that ! {holding up his hand) To think that 
this about-to-be-blood-stained monster has ever dared to 
clasp your innocent little palm ! Look at the grinning 
lines of vice, there, and there, and there — in fact — every- 
where ! 

Ang. How mournfully interesting, {compares ha7id icith 
her own, and then starts violently and exclaims) Oh ! 

Edw. What is it ? 

Ang. Look, look ! Catch me, I am fainting — I — I've got 
them, too ! 

Edw. Got what ? {catching her) 

,Ang. The same lines. 

Edw. Impossible ! 

Ang. See, see ! 

Edw. {convpares hands) Good heavens ! It is true, {stag- 
gers^ holding her) My brain reels — take hold of me — oh, no, 
of course you can't. Let us stagger to a chair, {they stagger 
to a chair) 

Ang. {weeping) Oh, how wicked we are ! (both groan, 
"Oh ! "■) What will become of us ! Do you think we shall 
live to be hanged ? 

Edw. {moodily) Yes, I suppose so. (Angela goes towards 
door) where are you going, Angy ? 

Ang. {solemnly) To do my melancholy duty — warn papa 
to lock up all the razors, put burglar alarms on his study 
windows, and order a portable fire escape. Wretched old 
man ; won't he be sorry now that he ever meddled with 
Palmistry ! My first arson shall be the burning of those 
books. {Exit) 

Edw. And my first murder, the man who wrote them ! 
Ah me ! How little we know our own characters ! Who 
would . have thought that such terrible potentialities 
could lie hidden in one's hand ? But I'll cheat them yet. 
Yes, one way remains. Immediate death. I wonder what 
is the pleasantest mode of suicide ? Razors ? — no, they 
make a mess I Poison ? — that hurts ! Drowning — impos- 
sible, I can swim. I must think it over. I wonder if there 
is a handbook on the subject ? I'll look it up. _ Yes, the 
only career open to me now is to strike out a suicidal line 
of my own — make my sole interest in life my manner of 
leavinsf it. 



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A SHOW OF HANDS. 11 

Ang. {rushes in) Oh, Edward, Edward ! 

Edw. Have you told your father ? 

Ang. Yes, aud oh — poor papa ! 

Edw. (gravely) Poor papa ! Angy, you haven't made 
a start, have yqu ? {indicating the severing oj the icind- 
pipe) 

Ang, No — not yet. 

Edw. {sigh of relief ) xA.h ! 

Ang. But poor papa ! 

Edw. Well, well ! 

Ang. I showed him my hand, and bursting into tears 
he examined his own — and, oh, Edward — what do you 
think ? He's worse than we are ; oh, what a criminal family 
,we are ! He says there is no telling how soon we may begin. 
Ply from us while there is yet time. Fly ! 

Edw. What's the use of flying ? I am just as likely to 
make a start as you are. 

Ang, Then come with us. 

Edw. Where ? 

Ang. To the nearest police-station — to give ourselves into 
custody on suspicion. It would be such a comfort, dear, 
to be chained in the same dungeon with you. 

Edw. Good ! then let us to our doom. But hark, who's 
that calling ? 

Ang. It's papa's voice, (runs to door) 

Edw. (aside) Perhaps the old boy is starting on the 
warpath. I must be prepared, (tal-es wp choir) 

Ang. Hush ! Papa is speaking, (calling off) What did 
you say? (pause) No? (pause) Really! (listens icith groicing 
jdeasure) Oh, how delightful — what a relief — how happy 
I — (runs up to Edward) Did you hear that, dearest ? It's 
all a mistake. 

Edw. a mistake ! 

Ang. Yes, papa has been looking at Diagram 220 instead 
of Diagram 230, and all our lines, instead of being vicious 
are those of morality, long life, and boundless wealth. 

Edw. Angy ! 

Ang. Eddie ! (fall into each other'' s arms limply) 

Edw. What a relief ! But we've had an awful fright. 
I shall remember it to my dying day. However, I suppose 
we may now consider ourselves really engaged, so we'll go 
at once nnd get his formal consent. (icaJking together to 
door) 



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Ang. Yes, he'll have to give it now. 
' Edw. Rather ! 

Ang. Because you know we've carried it by a Show of 
Hands. (Jiolding up hands as if in the act of voting and 
JSxeunt) 

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